Nepal was converted into a constitutional republic on May 28, 2008. Accordingly, the first parliamentary election was held in 2008 and the first president and a vice president were elected. Then a prime minister was appointed along with his cabinet members and the Constituent Assembly (CA) was formed among other constitutional bodies. The CA was tasked with writing a new constitution within four years. However, the first CA failed to draft the constitution pushing the nation almost into a constitutional crisis. It was the second CA which drafted the 2015 constitution. The nation has been experiencing a democratic republic and the current federal structure for the last one and half decades raising high hopes of the common people. However, it seems that the republican dreams of the people are being shattered owing to the egoistic and irresponsible political acts of senior political leaders.
The people have now started raising concerns such as: was the king dethroned constitutionally? Has the country improved and developed after abolishing the monarchism as blamed for being obstacle for the development of the country? Has the living standard of the common people improved since then? Has the nation’s international image and prestige improved for the better after the ouster of the monarchy? Have the republican leaders established any factory for generating inland employment opportunities to retain younger generation’s exodus to foreign countries for employments, and so on?
The popularity of unconstitutionally dethroned king Gyanendra Shah has significantly increased over the recent months looking closely at the presence of people’s crowds in Bhaktapur and other places recently to welcome him. Over these past years, the country's long-term peace, stability and international image and its sovereignty have begun to directly or indirectly dwindle. Now, to save this country from further plunging into social, political and economic chaos, political analysts opine that there should be no delay in extending mutual cooperation and political reconciliation based on shared trust between the political parties, without feeling any political insecurity and the monarchy as a long patriotic historical and unifying institution.
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